 Abbreviations/music lexicon
| Abbreviation |
Slw |
| German (de) |
Kolbenflöte |
| English (en) |
Slide whistle |
| Spanish (es) |
Flauta de pistón |
| French (fr) |
Flûte lotus |
| Italian (it) |
Flauto a pistone |
| Dutch (nl) |
Slide whistle |
| Portuguese (pt) |
Flauta de pistão |
| Definition/synonyms |
A slide whistle (variously known as a swanee or swannee whistle, lotus flute,[1] piston flute, or jazz flute) is a wind instrument consisting of a fipple like a recorder's and a tube with a piston in it. Thus it has an air reed like some woodwinds, but varies the pitch with a slide. The construction is rather like a bicycle pump. Because the air column is cylindrical and open at one end and closed at the other, it overblows the third harmonic. "A whistle made out of a long tube with a slide at one end. An ascending and descending glissando is produced by moving the slide back and forth while blowing into the mouthpiece."[2] "Tubular whistle with a plunger unit in its column, approximately 12 inches long. The pitch is changed by moving the slide plunger in and out, producing ascending and descending glisses. |
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